Careful now–it almost sounds like you’re advocating ignoring rules when it’s immoral to follow them!
There’s an idea I’ve written about before–the Victor’s Distinction–where folks approve of advocacy of justice when the fight’s over, but hesitate to approve of current, un-won fights for justice. I worry that the board will fall into that error, approving of past civil disobedience but not approving of current CD.
Take, then, Rosa Parks’s actions. Parks trained at the Highlander Folk School on how to conduct effective civil disobedience. If the board had been around in 1955 and Parks had posted advocacy for violating racial segregation laws, am I right that this rule would have required her to be sanctioned for her advocacy?